Anakana Schofield
Anakana Schofield will be at Berton House from July to September 2018. She is working on a complex and inventive story that responds to both Jorge Luis Borges’ “The Library of Babel” and the current housing affordability crisis in Vancouver.

Carleigh Baker
Carleigh Baker will be at Berton House from January to March 2019. She is working on a novel about unprepared do-gooders facing the Canadian wilderness in an attempt to save the environment, surviving only due to the generosity of the local Indigenous community.

Sarah Mian
Sarah Mian will be at Berton House from October to December 2018. She is working on The World in Awful Sleep, a chilling account of a young couple who buy an old church in rural Nova Scotia, causing their relationship to take a dark turn.

Trish Salah
Trish Salah will be at Berton House from April to June 2019. She will be working on poetry collection and exploringtransgender fantasies encoded in feminist, autobiographical, and analytical archives and their ramifications for sexual minority subjects.